本文简要介绍了 2 0 0 4年度诺贝尔经济学奖获得者芬恩·基德兰德和爱德华·普雷斯科特的生平 ,对他们在经济政策设计的“时间一致性”问题和经济周期的波动源及传导问题等方面的宏观经济理论贡献进行了评述 ,并对他们的经济理论的借鉴与启示意义提出了粗略的看法 This article gives a brief account of the lives of Finn Kidderland and Edward Prescott, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics, and their discussion of the “time consistency” and economic cycles of economic policy design The sources of volatility and conduction issues such as the contribution of macroeconomic theory were reviewed, and their economic theory of reference and implications of a rough idea put forward